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Lady Freedom Returns

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1. One may want to get a hold of a Lawyer that works with media issues.

Reply to Fire Walk With Me (Original post)

Thu Jan 3, 2013, 10:51 PM

Jan 2013

When Occupy Colorado Springs activist Patrick Jay tried to document the actions of the police from outside the mall window, he was pounced upon by Bloomfield Police for not having removed himself sufficiently from the area and thus was held to be trespassing. When I tried to take pictures of his arrest, I was arrested

Was the sidewalk area on the property or was it a public sidewalk? If it is public, not private, outside in public sight, the police crossed the line. Double check with a media lawyer first, however.

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1sthand account of the racist, militarized police response to #IdleNoMore at Flatirons mall (Updated [View all] Fire Walk With Me Jan 2013 OP

One may want to get a hold of a Lawyer that works with media issues. Lady Freedom Returns Jan 2013 #1

Found some more about it, but it is not much. Lady Freedom Returns Jan 2013 #2

Pissed their pants tama Jan 2013 #3

what do you expect warrprayer Jan 2013 #4